Solitude
of a Falling Star
The YYH Episode Guide
by Morgan D.
Episode
002 - No Mundo Espiritual:
Teste da Ressurreição
(At Reikai: Test of Resurrection)
Botan flies on her oar to Reikai, with Yusuke holding to the blade as best as he can. They soar over the Styx River until they get to Enma-daiou's fortress.
Inside,
many onis (ogres) are busy running around with huge piles of paperwork.
Yusuke compares the place to an insurance company.
Worried about how he should address the powerful Enma-daiou, Yusuke make quick plans to attack the gigantic King of Death by the rear, and grabbing him by the neck, etc. etc. But Botan takes him to an office where he meets Koenma, son of Enma, no more than a toddler using a pacifier. Yusuke finds that hysterical and mocks the Prince of Reikai. Koenma scolds him severely, telling him he's actually fifty times older than Yusuke.
Koenma gives Urameshi an egg, ordering him to keep it with him all the time. The egg should absorb Yusuke's energy to form the creature inside. If Yusuke's thoughts and actions are good, a good harmless monster will come out of the egg. But if his spirit is dominated by evil, a barbarous monster will come out to devour him and destroy his soul forever.
Now
Yusuke has to find a way to keep his body from being cremated, since he
needs a body to resurrect to. Atsuko is drunk and too overwhelmed by the
loss of her son, so Yusuke looks for Keiko, who's crying in her sleep.
Instructed by Botan, he shows up in her dream and promises he will be
back.
Keiko visits Atsuko the next morning, but seeing the woman so depressed, she doesn't have the courage to mention her dream.
Botan then suggests that Yusuke enter the body of a person of strong spirit (a medium) to tell people his body must not be cremated. Knowing his old rival Kuwabara is sometimes assaulted by visions of spirits, Yusuke enters his body. But he can only stay in for one hour.
Looking for Keiko, he runs to the restaurant of her parents (the family leaves in an apartment at the 2nd floor). She's not there, so he tries to speak to the Yukimuras; but they don't recognize her daughter's childhood friend in Kuwabara's body. Offended by the idea of someone trying to impersonate the late Yusuke, Keiko's parents shoo the boy away.
Still trying to find Keiko, Yusuke runs into lots and lots of Kuwabara's enemies along the way, and since they think he is Kuwabara, Yusuke is forced to waste time defeating them all.
At last Yusuke sees Keiko's friends waiting in front of a shop, but his (Kuwabara's) face is so bruised and bumped that the girls are frightened away when they see him.
Keiko leaves the shop looking for her friends, and Yusuke wonders how he's going to make her recognize him. Coming from behind her, he grabs her breasts and asks, "Guess who?" By reflex, she turns and punches him: "Yusuke, you idiot!"
Seeing Kuwabara fallen on the pavement before her, she apologizes, but Yusuke confirms his real identity. He repeats his promise of coming back, and asks her to take care of his body. She nods and hugs him.
The
one hour is passed and Kuwabara "wakes up", while Keiko is still hugging
him. He doesn't understand a thing, but since he's there and the embrace
feels so good... He tightens the hug, but Keiko, somehow noticing the
change, punches Kuwabara. Abashed, she quickly apologizes and runs away,
leaving a very confused and bruised Kuwabara behind.
Keiko runs to warn Atsuko, but Yusuke's mother has already opened the casket and seen that her son was still breathing. They embrace, happy to know that Yusuke is still alive.